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This particular set of plumbing feeds gaseous hydrogen (tapped off the SSMEs, I believe - not 100 percent sure where the tap-off point is as I write this) back into the External Tank's liquid hydrogen tank during ascent, to maintain pressurization of the tank.

Why do we keep ending up with the same terrible vehicle designs (i.e., Shuttle, Shuttle-C, ALS, NLS, and now Ares I) and the same terrible engine designs (i.e., SSME, OMS, and J-2X, when the tap-off J-2S was far superior)?

In any ease the tap-off power shall be allotted according to the technical possibilities and to the already existing cable capacity (e.g. 1.5 kW instead of 2 kW in level 3, monthly billing as per level 3 or 4 kW instead of 8 kW in level 4, monthly billing as per level 4);